No matter your level of software development skills, this book is a great source to learn about the basic principles of clean code and best practices to get better at coding. Christian Mayer distills a vast amount of knowledge for you in his book on the subtle art of developing software.
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PDF has often been used for publishing valuable data. Sometimes it is a piece of cake to extract the human-readable data and convert it into csv, excel or put it into a database. Sometimes PDF is used to publish data in a hard-to-process format, i.e. using embedded images. The open-source ecosystem provides fantastic tools to get data out of PDF files.
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A few weeks ago we had a heatwave and we were thinking if the hotter a place the poorer it is. We could collect data to test our hypothesis thanks to the recent advances in open data and scraping technologies.
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Join us to learn more about graph neural networks and PyTorch Geometric on 5th May! The online event is free and open to everyone.
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Visualizing text is neither easy, nor a straightforward task and often it is totally useless. Here, we try to give a visual summary of various texts and the question if any of the visualizations is useful left to the reader. Woody Allen’s bon mot, “I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” serves as our disclaimer here.
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Let’s face it, data scientists work with software engineers and at the end of the day, they have to deploy software. An effective data scientists should be able to work within a software development team, so (s)he must be able to use the tools of the trade. Our previous post introduced the very basics and now we make a further step.
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Our report on using AI to predict the riskiness of public procurement calls based on their text is available on tenders.guru
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I have bad news; being able to write programs is only a tiny fraction of software development and data science. You have to know a lot of things and this can become very frustrating. You will be bombarded with acronyms and silly-named tools, like IDE, git, version control, CI, etc, etc. At some point, you have to start use the tools of the trade along with coding and here we give you some advice on what to use to become a pro.
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What does it mean to build a language model? How it is related to the Beat Generation’s cut-up technique and can be used for text generation? We’ll shed light on these questions using Python!
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